Nearly 60% of Australian IT&T Executives intend to hire in 2012, naming employee retention as the number one challenge for this year. When asked to rank the key issues they expect to face in 2012, IT&T executives ranked the global economy as less important than any other sector, naming 'adapting to new technologies' as number two, followed by skills shortages and the global economy coming in fourth.

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